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[RCMcKenzie]

Not exactly a Kreindler, but you can make your own baseball card prints with supplies from a hobbies and crafts store. Here is a linocut of a J. Wood dotted tie photo of Joe Crotty...

[steve B]

Originally Posted by RCMcKenzie

Not exactly a Kreindler, but you can make your own baseball card prints with supplies from a hobbies and crafts store. Here is a linocut of a J. Wood dotted tie photo of Joe Crotty...

That's kind of nice actually. The printing needs a bit of practice, but the actual portrait part is good.
My art teacher made me try that style a couple times, but I never could get that level of "liveliness" in the subject. I was much better with architecture and mechanical subjects.

Steve B

[RCMcKenzie]

Thanks, Steve. I like to think of my style as... in the manner of German Expressionist's Christian Rohlfs and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, but the truth is I can't draw well enough to be a realist.

[drcy]

The baseball one will be harder to print, due to the fine dots detail. May need a professional.

On a side printing note, a linocut (such as shown above) is the same as a woodcut, except linoleum was used for the printing block instead of wood. Linoleum is a lot easier to carve and is a relatively modern product. A print expert can look at a final print and tell you if it's a linocut or a woodcut, but that's because the know what they are doing.

[steve B]

I'm about halfway there.

I can get the process for almost everything I come across in person, less by seeing scans. Really good woodcuts are difficult, especially ones done on the endgrain of a hardwood like Maple.

Oddly T205 backs were a challenge, should be lithographed, but have lots of indicators of type being used. Then I found out that a common process of the time involved laying out litho plates with transfers - which could be printed from either a master litho plate or set type.

I've done a small bit of many of the common things. Lithograph, etching, engraving, wood block, linoleum, silkscreen, Maybe one or two others.

Someday when I find my stack of prints from HS I'll photo or scan a few.

Steve B

[drcy]

About ten years ago I took a class at the Pratt Art Institute-- total beginners survey to print making. We made handmade etchings, woodcuts, engravings, lithographs more. All the old school/Rembrandt stuff. Used the printing press, made proofs, used etching acid. About 8 students in the class, so you knew everyone. The teacher was a master printmaker and artist who had her stuff displayed in museums, but she was just there to show how printmaking is done.

I took it because, as an authenticator, I thought it would be useful to hands on know how to make prints in order to identify them. I was the only non-artist in the class.

[DixieBaseball]

This thread peaked my interest as I am not sure we have had a printing plate discussion by way of actually players from newspapers, yearbooks, etc. - Perhaps I missed it over the years, but is seems the only discussion on Net 54 re/ printing plates were for actual baseball cards. I am surprised I have not seen more of these wood blocks, but here is my lone contribution that I picked up at the National this year. First scans are from camera, then I actually scanned the photo to get a more clear shot of the team and players. (SJ on the jersey) - Would love to know more about this team, etc. - This is the first team printing block I have ever run across, so I had to have it.